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JUST IN: Keyamo drags Atiku, the EFCC, and others to court on allegations of money laundering
The APC presidential campaign spokesman said that the CCB, ICPC, and EFCC were the second, third, and fourth defendants, in that order.
Festus Keyamo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), said that Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been served with a summons at the Federal High Court in Abuja. The summons is related to charges of corruption.
The Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), Independent Corrupt Practices Commission and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) were also named as defendants by Keyamo, who also serves as the spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council.
The plaintiff is asking the court to order the second, third, and fourth defendants to look into, contact, and/or arrest the first defendant, Abubakar, in connection with allegations of corruption involving a specific bank owned by a company called Marine Float and other accounts of two unnamed companies, according to Keyamo, who claims that information was revealed to a particular aide by the name of Michael Achimugu.
Keyamo claimed in a statement of claim given to Channels Television that whistleblower Michael Achimugu made the claims public. He also claimed to have gotten a certified true copy of the affidavit, which he believes would be used as evidence in the lawsuit.
Its contents are said to describe how the special purpose vehicles (SPVs) in question were used to covertly transfer and misappropriate state funds between 1999 and 2007, when the first defendant was Nigeria’s vice president.